2008 Quote by Christopher Hitchens

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

— Julianne Malveaux

“What distinguished Obama was his determination not to wait until he had forged a longer political record of his achievement, and the historic conjunction…

— Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this,…

— Tim Wise

“But what I remember most is the sense of impossibility with which Obama regarded the Trump presidency. I confess to basically feeling the same.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Obama assured us, only the United States. He claimed to have worked across party lines in the Illinois state senate on bipartisan issues like…

— Reed Ralph

“It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's…

— Paul Ryan

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

— Bashar al-Assad

“Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Many supporters believe--or want to believe--that Obama will be a transformative political leader in a transformative time. They eagerly await the flowering of peace…

— Clarence Lusane

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to…

— Gail Collins

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson